Custom Games & Web3
Development

• Polished games that bolt a token on at launch

  The game ships well; then the economy gets added in the final sprint and breaks within the first week of mainnet. Token sink/source curves were never simulated against the play pattern.

• Chain-first projects with no player

  A contract ships, a whitepaper ships, a launchpad ships — but the game loop is two pages of design notes. Six months later there is a treasury and no daily active users.

• Asset-store backends that break at scale

  The Unity asset store backend that worked for the closed beta starts billing per-CCU in production and breaks the unit economics at the first viral moment.

• Anti-cheat as a post-launch afterthought

  Cheating gets treated as a problem to solve after launch. By then the leaderboard is meaningless, retention is gone, and the economy is being farmed by bots.

• Wallet prompts in the default player flow

  First-time players hit a wallet connect, a gas estimate, and a signing modal before they have done anything fun. Conversion off the install drops by an order of magnitude.

• Unpredictable gas breaks retention math

  Every player action costs an unknowable amount of gas. Cost-per-action is non-deterministic, ARPU is impossible to model, and the studio cannot plan against a number that drifts daily.

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1. 01

   Discovery sprint

   Game-design and economy review, target-audience workshop, regulatory pre-check. We leave with a one-page brief and a vertical-slice scope.

2. 02

   Vertical slice

   Playable prototype of the core loop, on-chain prototype of the economy contracts, asset-pipeline test. Investor-ready, not a tech demo.

3. 03

   Production

   Content sprints, art pipeline, smart-contract audit, server architecture, anti-cheat. Telemetry wired in from sprint one, not at launch.

4. 04

   Closed beta / soft launch

   Region-locked soft launch, telemetry-driven balance tuning, economy simulation against real player behaviour. Mainnet rehearsal happens here.

5. 05

   Mainnet / launch

   Cross-store release (App Store, Play Store, Steam, web), mainnet contract deploy, marketing-ops handover. Day-one live-ops on call.

6. 06

   Live ops & SLA

   24/7 monitoring, incident response, balance levers tuned without redeploys, quarterly roadmap reviews, and a documented hand-off path when you bring the game in-house.

• Discovery sprint

  Two to four weeks, fixed scope. We validate the game design, prototype the economy, audit the regulatory landscape, and leave with an investor-ready brief and a vertical-slice plan.

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• Dedicated team

  A senior in-house team — engineers, designers, smart-contract authors, and live-ops — embedded as your studio for a fixed roadmap. You get a delivery lead, a weekly demo, and the code on day one.

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• Code audit and takeover

  For studios with an existing game or Web3 stack that has outgrown its first build. We audit the contracts, the server architecture, and the economy, then rebuild the parts that broke first.

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• Do you build full games or just the Web3 layer on top?+

  Both. We have shipped full game builds (Three.js / WebGL, mobile, native) and we have engineered the Web3 economy and in-game store on top of an existing game (Golden Tides). Pick the engagement shape that matches your need.

• Which engines and stacks do you work with?+

  For native and mobile games: Unity, Unreal, Godot, and native Swift / Kotlin where the game loop demands it. For browser games: Three.js, Babylon.js, Phaser, PixiJS. For mobile cross-platform: React Native and Flutter where the game loop allows.

• Which chains do you build on?+

  Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Solana, and BNB Chain in production. We pick the chain on technical fit (cost per action, finality, ecosystem) and recommend a default for your specific game economy in the discovery sprint.

• How do you handle gas and fees for players?+

  Layer-2 or sidechain settlement for the default flow, gas sponsorship for actions inside the game loop, meta-transactions where the contract surface allows, and batching for marketplace operations. Player-facing fees are stable and bounded; surprise gas prompts are a bug.

• Can you do anti-cheat for Web3 games?+

  Yes. Authoritative server architecture for game state, deterministic simulation where it matters, and ML-based anomaly detection on the economy telemetry. We design anti-cheat into the architecture from sprint one; bolting it on after launch does not work.

• Do you do contract audits, or only build?+

  We build, and we coordinate independent audits before mainnet. We do not market ourselves as an audit firm — that is a conflict of interest. The contracts we ship go to an external auditor (OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits, or comparable) before deploy.

• What does a typical game build timeline look like?+

  Discovery sprint: two to four weeks. Vertical slice: six to ten weeks. Production to soft launch: four to nine months depending on scope and content depth. Live ops: ongoing. Investors get a vertical-slice demo before production begins.

• How is pricing structured?+

  Fixed-scope for discovery and vertical slice; monthly retainer for dedicated team during production; SLA-based for post-launch live ops. Token revenue share is available for projects where IrenicTech is a co-development partner; this is negotiated case-by-case.